Re: [Gimp-user] Zoom layers independently, or overlay an image at different resolution?

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

Hi Erika -
I can understand your demand, and unfortunately GIMP is not capable of
that (I wonder if any other raster based software is).

The way you already do it (large square brush + grid)  is the only
work-around I can think of.

On 22 June 2015 at 19:51, Erika quinn <lovelace crossproduct net> wrote:
> I'm doing some low-resolution spritework for a project of mine, and I'd
> really like to be able to work by doing the pixels on-top of a much higher
> resolution sketch of the character. (Basically, a sort of
> Prince-of-Persia-esque rotoscoping, but with hand-drawn artwork)
>
> I've managed to accomplish this to a limited extent by making a second
> layer, creating a very large square brush, and a wide grid with large snap
> extent, but this is kind of inelegant, and it limits me strictly to working
> a pixel at a time.
>
> Is there any better way of accomplishing what I want? Has anyone else ever
> even wanted to do something like this? (I've had zero luck googling the
> problem because I can't even think of a concise way to phrase it)
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